Widow's Grove
Tom Waits

I met you in the saddle, rode you in the dust
Held your hand to the heavens, pulled your heart to the earth
There was something blinded me more than the mist
And the breath of the cottonwood buds lighter yet

And you rode the maypole of dance hall legs
And galloped to another's embrace
And I bit the flowers from your wrist corsage
And you waltzed too slowly, too slowly you waltzed
With that girl from Widow's Grove

Oh, I'd follow you to the river, that washes out to the sea
Through the wind, through the rain of a cold dark night
That's where I'll be

Near the breath of a swallow, petals dropped as you fell
As you grabbed then shyly held me, against the stone cold well
In your hand was a glass, you held the ice against the night
And it dripped and it sparkled and I laughed a wish

Before it all slipped all down the dark, tunneled well
I heard it melt quietly and I looked at you
Bent to the earth with just one pleading wish
Your skirts brushed to the furious pounding

Oh, I'd follow you to the river, that washes out to the sea
Through the wind, through the rain of a cold dark night
That's where I'll be

I hid in the elm and raised the bough, that hung even with your neck
And I chased you and drowned you, there deep in the lake
And when your mouth was full and wet, I swallowed all your reckless fate
And with your last breath, you moaned too drunk to wake

Oh, I'd follow you to the river, that washes out to the sea
Through the wind, through the rain of a cold dark night
That's where I'll be
Through the wind, through the rain of a cold dark night
That's where I'll be


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Lyrics by Tom Waits

  (My Baby Left Me on a) Trash Day   2:19   A Nickel's Worth of Dreams   A-Chick A-Boom   Adios Lounge   Ain't Goin' Down to the Well   All the Time   Alter Boy   Annie's Back in Town   Army Ants   Babbachichuija   Baby Gonna Leave Me   Baby I'm Not a Baby Anymore   Bend Down the Branches   Big Face Money   Black Box Theme   Bottom of the World   Bride of Rain Dog   Bride of Rain Dog [Instrumental]   Bronx Lullabye/Smugglers Waltz   Brother Can You Spare a Dime?   But He's Not Wilhelm   Calliope   Calliope [Instrumental]   Carnival   Carnival Bob's Confession   Chase the Clouds Away   Children's Story   Cinny's Waltz   Circus Girl   Clang Boom Steam   Closing Time   Coattails of a Dead Man   Date to Church (The Replacements cover)   Dave the Butcher   Dave the Butcher [Instrumental]   Diamond in Your Mind   Do You Know What I Idi Amin   Dog Door   Dog Treat   Dragging a Dead Priest   Fawn   Fish in the Jailhouse   Flash Pan Hunter (Intro)   Good Night Loving Trail   Good Old World (Gypsy Instrumental)   Good Old World (Gypsy Instrumental) [Instrumental]   Gospel Train/Orchestra   Heart of Saturday Night   Helium Reprise   Helsinki Mood   Highway Cafe   Home I'll Never Be   I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know About Her   I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby   I'm Not Your Fool Anymore   In Shades   In the Morning   Instrumental Montage (The Tango/Circus Girl)   Interlude   Intro to "Better Off Without a Wife"   Intro to "Big Joe and Phantom 309"   Intro to "Eggs and Sausage"   Intro to "On a Foggy Night"   Intro to "Putnam County"   Intro to "Warm Beer and Cold Women"   It Rains on Me (with Chuck E. Weiss)   It's Over   Jayne's Blue Wish   Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet   Just Another Dime Store Novel   Just Another Sucker on the Vine   Just Another Sucker on the Vine [Instrumental]   King Kong (Daniel Johnston cover)   Kitate   Knife Chase   Knife Chase [Instrumental]   Lie to Me   Little Man   Lord I've Been Changed   Los Angeles Mood   Los Angeles Theme   Louise   LowDown   Lucinda   Martin Goes and Does Where It's At   Memories of What   Metrotown   Midtown   Midtown [Instrumental]   Missing My Son   Never Let Go   New York Mood   Nirvana   No One Can Forgive Me but My Baby   Old Time Feelin'   On the Other Side of the World [Instrumental]   Once More Before I Go   Opening Intro   Opening Montage (Tom's Piano Intro/Once Upon a Tow...   Papa's Got a Brand New Bag   Paradise Alley   Paris Mood   Pay Me   Playin' Hooky   Poor Little Lamb   Presents   Purple Avenue   Putting on the Dog   Rainbirds   Rainbirds [Instrumental]   Rains on Me   Raised Right Men   Red Shoes   Return of Jackie & Judy (The Ramones cover)   Road to Peace   Russian Dance   Satisfied   Sea of Love   Serrano   Shiny Things   Silent Night   Slam on Little Sheep   Sleep Tonight (The Rolling Stones cover)   Smuggler's Waltz   Somewhere [From West Side Story]   Spacious Thoughts   Spare Parts II and Closing   Spidey's Wild Ride   Standing on the Corner   Straydog   Sweet and Shiny Eyes (Bonnie Raitt cover)   Take Care of All My Children   Tell It to Me   The Big Rock Candy Mountain   The Dwarfs' Marching Song   The Movie   The Pontiac   The Tango   Thousand Bing Bangs   Tom Tales   Tom's Piano Intro   Tommy the Cat   Two Sisters   Waitin' for Waits   Waltzing Mathilda   Wedding Spring   What Else Is New?   What Keeps Mankind Alive?   Whose Sportcoat Is That?   With a Suitcase   World Keeps Turning   World of Adventure-River of Man   You Can Never Hold Back Spring   You Can Never Hold Back Spring   Young at Heart

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